Automount HD

[la_monda]

I was wondering how can i automount my ntfs disk upon startup without having to doubleclick on it and insert password.
thnx

[Husse]

You add a line to /etc/fstab like this one

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/dev/sda1		 /media/sda1     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46

Open fstab with gksudo gedit or in KDE kdesu kate
Of course you probably do not have sda1, open gparted and check what you have
you also have to make a directory in media named as the "dev"

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sudo mkdir /media/sda1

[MagnusB]

Is, umask=007 strictly necessary, since defaults contains user, Husse?

[Husse]

Hey MagnusB - you're probably right
This is the line I got automagically at some time - I just open fstab and copy it - it works nicely for me

[MagnusB]

Ok, I was just curious. I always thought defaults made sure that the user had full read/write access to the disk.

[Husse]

man mount

[Fred]

MagnusB ,

I usually put it in too. You would be correct if the defaults were always set like we expect them to be. But that isn't always the case. The defaults are whatever whoever put the distro together decided they were. It doesn't hurt to have it and it might prevent an additional problem from popping up.

Fred

[la_monda]

I folloed your guide and with the help of a similar ubuntu thread i managed it out! It seems that the defaults for umask are zeros...i guess here is my fstab file to check it out!